Chapter 9Staying Hungry with Curiosity
Neil deGrasse Tyson is the director of the Hayden Planetarium at the American Museum of Natural History, and his home is littered with broken stuff, mostly toys and other small objects his children have explored and dismantled. But Neil is not disturbed by the collateral damage. As far as he's concerned, it's curiosity at its best. Curiosity is a trait he admires and embraces in his own work as a scientist. “A scientist is a child who has never grown up,” he tells me. “They will always poke and probe and test and do an experiment. Even if it's at risk of breaking something.”
Because curiosity is a trait, it imbues everything Neil has done. He studied physics at Harvard, while also rowing and wrestling ...
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